{"id":807978,"date":"2020-06-01T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1008391"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:30:13","slug":"rushs-alex-lifeson-isnt-motivated-to-play-music-after-neil-pearts-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rushs-alex-lifeson-isnt-motivated-to-play-music-after-neil-pearts-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush\u2019s Alex Lifeson Isn\u2019t Motivated to Play Music After Neil Peart\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

It\u2019s been five months since the death of Neil Peart,<\/a> and Rush<\/a> guitarist Alex Lifeson<\/a> says that he has yet to find comfort in music. \u201cIt\u2019s been difficult,\u201d he told sports journalist Ann Liguori on her show Talkin\u2019 Golf.<\/em><\/a> \u201cAfter Neil passed in January, I\u2019ve played very little guitar. I just don\u2019t feel inspired and motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rush fans have speculated that Lifeson and Rush frontman Geddy Lee might find a way to carry on the band\u2019s legacy after Peart\u2019s death, but the guitarist says they aren\u2019t at that point yet. \u201cI don\u2019t know if the motivation is there for us to really do anything now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re certainly proud of our track record, and we still love music. But it\u2019s different now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band last toured in 2015 as a celebration of the band\u2019s 40th anniversary. Lifeson and Lee inducted Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 and performed separately that night, but they have largely stayed away from the stage. Lee released a book in 2018, Geddy Lee\u2019s Big Beautiful Book of Bass<\/em>, and went on a book tour.<\/p>\n

Lifeson says he feels the same way he did after Peart\u2019s teenage daughter died in a 1997 car accident and Peart\u2019s wife died from cancer a few months later. \u201cI didn\u2019t really play for about a year [after that],\u201d he said. \u201cI just don\u2019t feel it in my heart right now. Every time I pick up a guitar, I just aimlessly mess around with it and put it down after 10 minutes\u2026Normally, I would pick up a guitar and I would play for a couple of hours without even being aware that I\u2019m spending that much time. So I know it\u2019ll come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band resumed activity in 2002 and toured pretty consistently through 2015. \u201cMaybe a year or two after we stopped, I probably missed it more,\u201d Lifeson says. \u201cBut I\u2019ve settled into it now, and I quite like my life and what I\u2019m doing. I keep active in music, and I\u2019m so in love with golf during the summer, and I\u2019m close to my family. It\u2019s a very good balance for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late last month, the group celebrated the 40th anniversary of Permanent Waves<\/em> by releasing a deluxe edition of the album packed with live tracks from the era. A tribute concert honoring Peart was originally booked for May 16th at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to postpone it until October 17th.<\/p>\n

\n

Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been five months since the death of Neil Peart, and Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson says that he has yet to find comfort in music. \u201cIt\u2019s been difficult,\u201d he told sports journalist Ann Liguori on her show Talkin\u2019 Golf. \u201cAfter Neil passed in January, I\u2019ve played very little guitar. I just don\u2019t feel inspired and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 17:51:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}